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theme_excel

ggplot theme based on old Excel plots


Description

Theme to replicate the ugly monstrosity that was the old gray-background Excel chart. Please never use this. This theme should be combined with the scale_colour_excel() color scale.

Usage

theme_excel(base_size = 12, base_family = "", horizontal = TRUE)

Arguments

base_size

base font size, given in pts.

base_family

base font family

horizontal

logical. Horizontal axis lines?

Value

An object of class theme().

See Also

Other themes excel: theme_excel_new()

Examples

library("ggplot2")

# Line and scatter plot colors
p <- ggplot(mtcars) +
     geom_point(aes(x = wt, y = mpg, colour = factor(gear))) +
     facet_wrap(~am)
p + theme_excel() + scale_colour_excel()

# Bar plot (area/fill) colors
ggplot(mpg, aes(x = class, fill = drv)) +
  geom_bar() +
  scale_fill_excel() +
  theme_excel()

ggthemes

Extra Themes, Scales and Geoms for 'ggplot2'

v4.2.4
GPL-2
Authors
Jeffrey B. Arnold [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9953-3904>), Gergely Daroczi [ctb], Bo Werth [ctb], Brian Weitzner [ctb], Joshua Kunst [ctb], Baptise Auguie [ctb], Bob Rudis [ctb], Hadley Wickham [ctb] (Code from the ggplot2 package.), Justin Talbot [ctb] (Code from the labeling package), Joshua London [ctb]
Initial release

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